Obama's World-Class Arrogance

When President Obama came to the U.N. General Assembly on September 25,
his arrogance was on full display. He skipped meeting any world
leaders, but did find time to sit down and talk about his lover moves on
ABC’s “The View.” Topics included how he’s a “romantic husband,” how he
“tucks in” his wife at night, and how his first kiss with Michelle is
now memorialized by a monument in Chicago.

Meanwhile, Israel is preparing for war against a soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. Yawn.

Obama also skipped the traditional luncheon, leaving UN secretary
general Ban-Ki Moon looking like “a jilted prom date,” reported CNN’s
Anderson Cooper. “I think he must be busy with something at this
moment,” Moon said at the lunch, drawing laughs. “Or perhaps he must be
stuck somewhere in traffic.”

But
the arrogance was also there in Obama’s UN speech. In one passage, he
flagrantly drew a straight line from blasphemers of Jesus Christ to his
own critics, as if those two groups are similar in their willingness to
offend messianic figures.

“Like me, the majority of Americans are Christian, and yet we do not
ban blasphemy against our most sacred beliefs,” he declared. Then it was
all about him: “As president of our country, and commander in chief of
our military, I accept that people are going to call me awful things
every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.” Anyone who’s
heard him diss the Supreme Court for the Citizens United verdict,
affirming political free speech, knows that’s baloney.

Our Obama-worshipping media played the second half of that clip as if
Obama were somehow being humble – which thoroughly distorts the picture.
The media coverage of Obama’s speech overlooked Obama’s bizarre
statement that “We not only respect the freedom of religion, we have
laws that protect individuals from being harmed because of how they look
or what they believe.”

No one in the liberal media thought it sounded ridiculous after the
Obama administration doubled down on the Catholic Church with ObamaCare,
insisting that faithful Catholics must fund insurance coverage for
contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients. No one blinked after
the “filmmaker” who made the Mohammed-mocking YouTube video was suddenly
jailed in California (perhaps for years) for ahem, “violating
probation.”

The media certainly skipped the Obama soundbite that rocketed around
Twitter within minutes, the pandering passage about Mohammed. “The
future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,” he
proclaimed.

Then he did his typical triangulating with religions: “But to be
credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we
see in the images of Jesus Christ that are desecrated or churches that
are destroyed, or the Holocaust that is denied.”

Our media failed to report the obvious: Obama is AWOL when it comes to
condemning desecrations of Christianity. Where is he with the constant,
obscene attacks against Catholics at home? Where is he on the assault on
Christianity all across the Muslim world? How about Israel?

Rep. Michael Grimm (R-New York) recently called on the president to
“stand up for America’s values and beliefs and denounce the ‘Piss
Christ’ that has offended Christians at home and abroad.” The
urine-soaked crucifix image (funded by the National Endowment for the
Arts) is once again being honored in a gallery, the Edwin Tyler Nahem
Gallery on West 57th Street in Manhattan, a short cab ride from the
United Nations.

Obama had nothing to say. There were no calls to the gallery the way
Team Obama called YouTube and asked for censorship. There were no
$70,000 advertising buys in Christian countries to pacify rioters. There
was just silence.

But in his speech, Obama employed New York City as a model of religious
tolerance. “For as the city outside these walls makes clear, we are a
country that has welcomed people of every race and every faith” – except
the Christians are always fair game for mockery.

William Donohue of the Catholic League protested the exhibit at the
gallery scene. He also made a video where he put a bobble-head doll of
Obama in a jar with “faux feces” and asked for a federal grant like
Andres Serrano received. ''It's brown Play-Doh,” he explained. “You get
the point, right? The cultural and political elite are basically
secularist. They don't believe in God. This is their god. Liberalism is
their god,” he said, pointing at the Obama jar.

At the center of that secularist elite is our very politicized media,
the ones who are rigging this election and allowing Obama to say all
sorts of ludicrous things about religion and to skip all sorts of
meeting with world leaders.

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